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Ultra-Rare 1770 Historic Boston Sermon Preached Just After The Boston Massacre

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Ultra-Rare 1770 Historic Boston Sermon Preached Just After The Boston Massacre
American Revolution
1770 Sermon Preached Just After “The Boston Massacre” - “Trust in God, the Duty of a People in a Day of Trouble”
May 30, 1770-Dated, Imprint, entitled “A Sermon Preached, May 30th. 1770,” by Charles Chauncy, Pastor of the First Church In Boston, Published by Daniel Kneeland, Boston,Very Fine.
“Trust in God, the Duty of a People in a Day of Trouble” is the title of this sermon, preached to a congregation still smarting from the recent Boston Massacre. Lacks half title and wrappers, measures 7.75” x 4.75” with a minor edge tear on the back page. Very rare. Sabin 12330; Evans 11599; Adams, American Independence 76.
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five American colonists by British soldiers on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of civilian-military tensions that had been growing since royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts.